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Zaninovich, Molly Kathleen

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This study evaluated the effectiveness of a sexual violence prevention workshop presented to three University of Oregon fraternities. In this study a total of 39 fraternity men completed the Updated Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (Updated IRMA) and the Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory-46 (CMNI-46) before and after they participated in the workshop. It was hypothesized that after workshop participation fraternity men would report conforming less strongly to masculine gender role norms within the United States (U.S.) and report accepting rape myths less strongly. These hypotheses were assessed by means of paired, two sample, one tailed, T-tests, which were applied to data from the pre and post surveys from each of the fraternities, for both the CMNI-46 and the Updated IRMA. The results of these statistical analyses proved both of the hypotheses correct, and the workshop can be considered a successful intervention.

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